The idea of ‘MPC swing’ is so ingrained in electronic music folklore that it’s considered almost heretical to question it – especially among large chunks of the hip hop production community.
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Perhaps above all else, one of the main questions we found ourselves asking was why the earlier models in Akai’s MPC series of sampling workstations are still considered to be among the best around when it comes to groove and timing.
Do dedicated hardware drum machines and samplers offer better timing and swing than software-based alternatives? Does swing do exactly the same thing in all DAWs and sequencers? What else contributes to the groove of a beat or loop? While researching our recent Passing Notes feature on DAW and drum machine swing, we found ourselves returning to the same few questions over and over again. We talk to drum machine pioneer Roger Linn to discover the secrets of perfect musical timing and find out why the swing of his MPC sampler series remains so highly rated.
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#Mpc 2 tripletts update
The free version 1.3 update brings a ton of new features, including effects modulation, a new saturate wavefolder and bent 259 wavefolder, an updated step sequencer, delay warp, triplets, a new stereo panning algorithm, and Native Apple Silicon support. Newfangled Audio has announced an update to the Generate marquee polysynth featuring chaotic oscillators.